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Sam Harris.org Reader ForumenCopyright 20172017-09-26T20:58:51+00:00Dreadhttps://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70313/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70313/#When:01:09:09Z<p>I feel the same dread I felt while watching Colin Powell delineate the Bush Administration’s reasons for attacking Iraq to the UN.&nbsp; What can we common citizens do?&nbsp; (I have discovered that a citizen cannot email VP Mike Pence or Cabinet members directly—just general delivery to the White House.&nbsp; Why is that?)&nbsp; </p>
<p>Yesterday the N Korean foreign minister called a strike against the US mainland “inevitable.”&nbsp; Meanwhile, Trump jetted to Florida, and his wife went to Canada.&nbsp; He tweeted more insulting threats.&nbsp; Not only is Kim a “rocket man,” but now a “little rocket man.”&nbsp; It feels like a remake of the Cuban missile crisis with amateur actors ad libbing.</p>
<p>Is anyone else losing sleep over this lunacy like I am?</p>
2017-09-25T01:09:09+00:00Why is North Korea prospering?&nbsp;https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70311/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70311/#When:19:11:02Z<p>Has this article been updated?&nbsp; Is that why we see the word ‘TRUMP’ in the headline?&nbsp; <a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.themontrealreview.com%2F2009%2FRare-Earth-Metals-North-Korea-New-Trump-Card.php">http://www.themontrealreview.com/2009/Rare-Earth-Metals-North-Korea-New-Trump-Card.php</a></p>
<p>Is there really <strong>6 or 10 trillion dollars</strong> in Kim’s jar?</p>2017-09-24T19:11:02+00:00Quebec’s new Secular Charterhttps://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70309/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70309/#When:14:21:46Z<p>I’m wondering what people, especially Canadian’s, think of Quebec’s new Secular Charter? It’s certainly not perfect but I see it being a step in the right direction.Here’s a link to an article: <a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Fstory%2F2013%2F09%2F11%2Ff-vp-fitz-morris-quebec-charter.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/09/11/f-vp-fitz-morris-quebec-charter.html</a></p>
<p>You can follow the maze of journalist and “expert” opinion’s until you’re blue in the face but try not to read just one</p>2017-09-24T14:21:46+00:00The Disgusting Zionist Vilification of Iranhttps://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70308/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70308/#When:02:44:51Z<p>Iran are Shi’ah — <strong>Sunni Islam</strong> is the proud purveyor of so-called “terrorism” — the asymmetrical, non nation state enemy the M.I.C. and warfare banksters have been wet-dreaming of for time immemorial.&nbsp; Iran is the party that sat down to the negotiation table to eke out a nuclear agreement.&nbsp; Iran is the nation that had arguably the most liberal form of Islam the world has known—before the oil hungry C.I.A. eliminated Mosaddegh and left a vacuum for hardliners to fill.<br />
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<span style="font-size:16px;">SAUDI ARABIA</span> are the Islamic theocracy promulgating, promoting and pushing barbaric Wahhabism throughout the Islamic world.&nbsp; <span style="font-size:16px;">SAUDI ARABIA</span> are the party who were fingered as the most connected with the financing and facilitating of the September 11, 2001 attacks.&nbsp; <span style="font-size:16px;">SAUDI ARABIA</span> are the nation who — despite its abysmal human rights track record, “jihad” mongering <em>et al.</em> — the U.S. sell high technology arms to.</p>
<p>The <span style="font-size:18px;">UNITED STATES</span> (<em>lit.</em> the U.S.-Zionist Alliance) are the gun runners of the world — arming their proxy pirates, “ISIS”, and the equipollently egregious, “Free Syrian Army”, with weapons of mayhem.&nbsp; The <span style="font-size:18px;">UNITED STATES</span> are the nation that continually propagates, perpetuates and profits from false flag wars throughout the globe.&nbsp; The <span style="font-size:18px;">UNITED STATES</span> are the military vassal state of Israel — the veritable ‘brawn’ to the Zionists’ ‘brain’, who enable the latter cult to realise their warped delusions of Rapture.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:20px;">ISRAEL</span> are run by nihilist Zionists, who are bent on fulfilling fairy tale biblical imprimatur.&nbsp; <span style="font-size:20px;">ISRAEL</span> are the party who ignored C.I.A. entreaty to eschew ‘over-hacking’ Iran’s centrifuges (<strong>see:</strong>‘Olympic Games’ / <em>a.k.a.</em> “Stuxnet” virus) — resulting in the eight-fold increase of Iran’s fissile material production.&nbsp; <span style="font-size:20px;">ISRAEL</span> are the illegal state of interloping, land-grabbing zealots, who have a political directive to create nuclear [H]olocaust™ <span style="font-size:9px;"><em>(all rights reserved)</em></span>, were their usurped lands ever ceded (<strong>see:</strong> ‘Samson Option’).&nbsp; <span style="font-size:20px;">ISRAEL</span> are the nation state that dictates U.S. foreign policy and puppeteers the morally and otherwise corrupt U.S. Congress (<strong>see:</strong> AIPAC / <em>erst.</em> Zionist Council of America).</p>
<p>As such, how can the world keep a straight face while spouting vitriolic vilification of the titular Persian state?&nbsp; Is this not the most ham-fisted and poorly-executed scapegoating of a nation since post-9/11 Iraq—with the infamous “WMD’s” / “anthrax” bunkum?&nbsp; How many times will the grovelling, gormless, gourmand goyim brook such blatant belligerence by these brigands of Beëlzebub?</p>
<p>Is this the real life…?!</p>2017-09-24T02:44:51+00:00The U.S. - North Korean Crisis Part IIhttps://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70300/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70300/#When:16:55:45Z<p><strong>An In-depth analysis.</strong></p>
<p>Chapter Two: <em>The Insults Get Personal</em></p>
<p>Alpha Primate One:<br />
(Pounding his chest.)<br />
“Destroy North Korea! Rocket man on suicide mission! Destroy North Korea!<br />
Ooo. Oooooooo. Oooooooooooooeeeeee!</p>
<p>Alpha Primate Two:<br />
(Pounding his chest.)<br />
“Mentally deranged U. S. dotard! Tame with fire! Tame with fire!<br />
Eee! Eeeeeeeee! Eeeeeeeeeeeee!</p>
<p>Stay tuned for Chapter Three: <em>The Feces Go Splat</em></p>
2017-09-22T16:55:45+00:00Corporations and Social Valueshttps://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70297/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70297/#When:11:40:50Z<p>Here in Australia we are going through an informal public debate on the question as to whether the law should be changed to allow for same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>In addition to individuals making public pronouncements as to their opinions, not unexpectedly so too are corporations.</p>
<p>How can a corporation have a coherent moral conviction?&nbsp; What level of representation should it comprise, if any?&nbsp; Should it be a majority view of the board, the staff, the shareholders?&nbsp; Should any group be canvassed or can the director make a public statement unilaterally?</p>
<p>And what of dissenting staff?&nbsp; On questions of relative morality doesn’t a corporation positing a view in opposition to its staff risk disenfranchising them?</p>
<p>Personally I have reservations about corporations playing in spheres where values are in play.&nbsp; What conviction can truly be held when they are beholden to profits and shareholders?</p>
<p>Scott</p>2017-09-21T11:40:50+00:00“The Plight of the Rohingya People”https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70290/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70290/#When:09:55:46Z<p>Just thought I’d defecate this pearl of wisdom here — in case someone comes across a bleeding heart, mainstream media brain-rotten individual (<em>a.k.a.</em> ‘liberal lumpen’), who cries them a river about the latest (titular) Moslem refugee related dislocation porn, and hasn’t any background into the situation beyond the misspelling of “Ung Song Sue Chee”:<br />
<a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2017-09-19%2Fspringvale-bank-fire-cctv-footage-aired-in-court%2F8960540"><strong>Footage of Rohingya Asylum Seeker Setting himself Alight in Suburban Australian Bank</strong> (ABC AU)</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><strong>Précis:</strong></span><br />
• Myanmar Asylum seeker (“Nur <strong>Islam</strong>”) purportedly miffed at his visa application taking too long to process, and piqued by some banking withdrawal related dispute he had at the time <br />
• decides to take some traditionally ‘halal bureaucratic action’, in order to cut through pesky immigration red tape<br />
• saunters into local bank (of a predominately Chinese area… for whatever that’s worth) with a plastic canister full of fuel, proceeds to douse the floor at the entrance of the building and then <em>“LIGHTS HIM UP!”</em> <span style="font-size:9px;">(*old school gamer facetiae… sorry — couldn’t help myself)</span><br />
• basted many, fried a few; as well as cooking himself medium rare halal<br />
• gets a four-month hospital hiatus — at Australian tax-payer expense (”<em>Oi! Oi! Oi!”™</em>) — for his selfless overhaul of the AU immigration processing system<br />
• subsequently, in an absurd display of “evil white man” racism / xenophobia / Islamophobia — perhaps even flavoured with a dash of kosher anti-Semitism <em>(*unconfirmed… but some ‘Moshe’, somewhere, will surely be working on it)</em> — gets unjustifiably fingered on over one hundred charges—pertaining to this truly great potential citizen’s philanthropic act of cultural enrichment<br />
• pleads “not guilty” to trying to hurt anyone (despite CCTV footage unequivocally demonstrating the exact opposite)<br />
• lays the blame at the feet of AU immigration processing prevarication and a lack of an un-policed, extant land bridge to Australia, from every Islamic theocracy on Allah’s <span style="font-size:9px;"><em>(verily merciful and arsonist forgiving)</em></span> Earth </p>
<p>...For, as we can all well can attest to, who <em>doesn’t</em>&nbsp; sometimes feel the need to all go full Buddhist immolation, when shit gets bogged down in bureaucracy?</p>
<p><em>Kanpai!</em></p>2017-09-19T09:55:46+00:00POLL:&nbsp; Are “The Young Turks” Inciting Racial Hatred Against White People?https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70285/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70285/#When:17:45:06Z<p><a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DV4i7OkOQbbg">TYT Promote a Race War</a></p>
<p>The video speaks for itself.&nbsp; Please vote after watching the video.&nbsp; Some footnotes:</p>
<p>1.&nbsp; TYT used the word “Lynch” in the title, even though the child was not killed or even seriously injured, and “lynching” implies a racially motivated murder.</p>
<p>2.&nbsp; TYT used “White Kids” in the title, as if that was a relevant factor in this nasty incident, which there is no evidence of.</p>
<p>3.&nbsp; TYT covered this story and were perfectly happy to attach their own biases and talking points to it, but for some <em>strange</em> reason did not even <em>touch</em> the recent <a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kansascity.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcrime%2Farticle170340652.html">Fredrick Scott</a> story or the <a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Flocal%2Flanow%2Fla-me-fresno-shooter-suspect-20170418-story.html">Kori Ali Muhammad</a> story…...two cases of black men murdering random white people.&nbsp; Both these men had a documented history of anti-white statements and ACTUALLY KILLED PEOPLE.</p>
<p>It’s almost as if their audience doesn’t want to hear about black racists killing white people, or TYT just don’t want them to hear about it….</p>
<p>4.&nbsp; Just listen to the mental gymnastics Cenk and Ana use in this segment to somehow tie the despicable actions of a few teenagers who happened to be white to all whites in America, and turn this story into an opportunity to hit their talking points about police racism, despite having no evidence race played a part in the police chief’s response.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAXSWEdUIo5k%26t%3D636s">TYT Praises Demographic Decline of “White” Christians</a></p>
<p>TYT’s video title:&nbsp; “Hey White Christians…...Your Time is Up!!!!!”</p>
<p>If someone had a video title “Hey Brown Muslims…..Your Time is Almost Up! - that would rightly be seen as completely unacceptable, and even a veiled call to genocide.&nbsp; What’s hilarious is that in the video, Cenk backtracks and tries to downplay the racial element of their video, which is completely explicit in their title.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DX6WXslkjBF4%26t%3D1s">Cenk’s Nephew Talks About “White Terrorism”</a></p>
<p>Cenk’s dumb nephew pretends that “white terrorism” is a category of terrorism.&nbsp; More amazing racist mental gymnastics…..</p>
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<p>What conclusions are we to draw from such an organization?&nbsp; Can anyone, after watching AiU’s analyses honestly say that TYT doesn’t have a serious problem with being anti-white and doing whatever they can to slander them as a race?</p>
<p>And seeing as how TYT is so popular (though their ways are being caught onto), what does that say about the thirst in America for stories which portray white people as bad?&nbsp; What does that say about the thirst in America to attach individual incidents which are extremely rare to overarching narratives about racism and hate in society, but only if those narratives point to white racism?</p>2017-09-18T17:45:06+00:00America First and Climate Changehttps://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70282/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70282/#When:18:53:13Z<p>America First and Climate Change</p>
<p>The average American produces about 20 metric tons of greenhouse gases every year.&nbsp; In China the average person produces about 8.49 tons per year.&nbsp; In India it’s 2.28 tons per person.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FList_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse_gas_emissions_per_capita</a></p>
<p>Trump has said he might not withdraw from the Paris agreement if it isn’t unfair to America.&nbsp; Can you imagine what will happen to the planet if China and India began to produce 20 metric tons of greenhouse gases per capita?&nbsp; If <strong>everyone in the world, 7.5 billion people</strong> began generating 20 metric tons of greenhouse gases per year?&nbsp; </p>
<p>What is your take on this?</p>2017-09-17T18:53:13+00:00I’m looking for a general book on politics. Can anyone recommend a a good one?https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70273/
https://www.samharris.org/forum/viewthread8915/viewthread/70273/#When:15:46:45Z<p>Hi all, </p>
<p>I’ve been listening to the podcast for a while and feel like I need to know more about politics in a general sense of the word. </p>
<p>So far I’m considering on buying <strong>The Politics Book</strong> published by DK (<a href="https://www.samharris.org/?URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dk.com%2Fuk%2F9781409364450-the-politics-book">https://www.dk.com/uk/9781409364450-the-politics-book</a>/)</p>
<p>Are there any other books you could recommend?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>2017-09-15T15:46:45+00:00